Sparky 4.2 x86_64 LXDE on VirtualBox 5.0.12

trueknight · December 27, 2015, 05:43:20 PM

Hello Everybody!
I have some trouble with installing Sparky as VM in VirtualBox 5.
It was successfully installed and booted the first time. But when I upgraded my Sparky the next reboot hung the system. The message appears "Starting virtual machine... 0%" and HDD indicator glows until I kill the process. I was waiting for about 30 min.
Does somebody know what's the reason?

pavroo · December 27, 2015, 06:06:14 PM

Hi
Have you installed it with the uefi mode?

trueknight · December 27, 2015, 06:11:24 PM

I've done everything by default. All the settings of VM is left by default. I set hdd size to 12GB and RAM to 2GB. Then I booted the live CD from ISO and install the system. That's all.
Well I think that I didn't use the uefi mode.

trueknight · December 31, 2015, 04:47:42 AM

The problem arises only when I fully upgrade the system within Sparky Firstboot. When I upgrade the system by Sparky System Upgrade everything goes well.

pavroo · January 01, 2016, 03:53:18 PM

It's strange...
The firstboot uses the sparky system upgrade to do so.

balloon · January 04, 2016, 05:01:38 AM

Quote from: trueknight on December 27, 2015, 05:43:20 PM
"Starting virtual machine... 0%"

This state should have not been booted yet Sparky.
This might be a problem with VirtualBox (It is not likely the cause Sparky)
or it is thought the problems depends on the PC environment.

ElQuia · April 29, 2016, 05:52:23 PM

I am on Virtual Box version 4.3.12 (on a Win 7 x64 PC), ALL later versions of VBox due to the new "hardening" or something like that woul not work, crashing on me. I have quite a lot of VMs, windows 2000, XP, 10, and a bunch of Linuxes. I Have NOT tried yet latest VBox (5.0.20 i believe). Stopped trying versions as of 5.012.
What I do is use 4.3.12 and dowload "testing" guest additions the latest.
sparky 4.2 LXQT is working fine in this setup (I use sparky KDE on my notebook)

arkanex · June 02, 2016, 07:52:59 PM

Quote from: trueknight on December 27, 2015, 05:43:20 PM
Hello Everybody!
I have some trouble with installing Sparky as VM in VirtualBox 5.
It was successfully installed and booted the first time. But when I upgraded my Sparky the next reboot hung the system. The message appears "Starting virtual machine... 0%" and HDD indicator glows until I kill the process. I was waiting for about 30 min.
Does somebody know what's the reason?

Try messing around with the CPU Settings. Enabling I/O APIC is mandatory for 64-bit and jenking around with the virtualization settings (PAE, etc) may prove worthy. Good luck.